CURATIVE TOURISM

The landscape of Heves County is very varied. You can find plains, hills and mountains. This kind of landscape, the hot springs and the curative waters can give a good base for curative horse riding, spa therapy, medicinal treatment of the respiratory illnesses within the curative tourism.

Curative waters

Because of its hydrogeological fundamentals, the region is very rich in curative and mineral waters. This curative waters are very important nationally and internationally too.

Turkish bath

In Eger we can find a few memories from the middle ages. This building is a former turkish bath from the middle ages. The Turkish bath was built between 1610 and 1617 by the turkish people who occupied this building. Today the Turkish bath is a modern balneotherapical centre. Medical theorapists can help sick people recover in the Turkish bath with complex bath therapy, varied electrotherapies, gymnastics and massage. The medical water includes mildly radon and is really curative for every kind of locomoter disorders (arthritic, spinal complaint). The bath can be used only with a sickness transfer order. Groups can visit the bath only on the ground of registration.

Eger - Spa

There are six pools, swimming pools and hot water thermal pools available for the guests. The temperature of the curative water with sulphide, calcium and hydro-carbonate content in the hot-water thermal pool is 40 ° C. The radioactive curative water in thermal bath No 3. is an excellent remedy for rheumatic diseases and for those with severe physical handicaps.

Hotel Eger - Park

The ensemble of swimming pool - sauna - solarium - conditioning room being alredy in operation, has been completed by physicotherapeutics treatment carried out under specialist supervision, dental treatments and fitness services (swimming pool, sauna, tennis) The treatment can be completed by taking medicinal waters as a drinking cure and by diabetic menu.

Hotel Flóra

The Hotel Flóra was built in the centre of the hot springs. The hotel is connected with the theropeutical wing by a covered corridor. The guests can be take part in reumatological and medical examinations made by specialists. According to the medical papers the guests take part in complex fizicotherapical treatments (electrotherapy, fototherapy, hidrotherapy, mechanotherapy, balneotherapy, etc./.

Egerszalók - Hot spring

The Hot Spring is situated by the main road between Egerszalók and Demjén. The spring was found in 1961 and it has been considered one of the most outstanding natural formations of the region since then. The steaming white residue of the spring makes it an attractive sight amids the dark pine trees. The water ' s microchemical composition is truly unique.The medicinal water in Egerszalók has international significance for the treatment of physical handicap diseases. The temperature of the spring water is 68 ° C.

Bükkszék

This tiny resort in a lovely natural setting lies to the north of the Mátra Hills. The Mátra and the nearby city of Eger offer plenty of exciting excursions and activites. Its sour medicinal water Salvus, is noted at home and abroad as an effective treatment for gastric and intestinal conditions. As a bathing cure, the bromic - iodic water helps to relieve rheumatic complaints, while its high sodium bicarbonate content makes it very suitable for treating degenerative physical handicaps and gynaecological, respiratory and gum disoders. Its temperature is 40 °C.

Parádfürdő

Parád at the northern foot of the Mátra Hills, has been one of Hungary ' s spas for 250 years. Parád has highly ferrous water with calcium, hydrogen - carbonate, sulphate, alum and high magnesium contents. It benefits gynaecological functioning and cases of physical exhuasting. As a drinking cure it is used for treating gastric and intestinal conditions.

Parádfürdo Recreation Centre

They can offer a special programme for those people who are living in an overstrung life. The centre operates also as a hotel whole year.

Kisköre

Kisköre is central to the Lake Tisza tourist trade. The lakeside thermal spring has medicinal and general recuperative properties. The temperature of the water is 60 ° C.

A real speciality: Dry-bath
"Gas-spring", Mofetta

The residents had blunder on the precence of carbon dioxide by accident. The people, living in the neighbourhood street perceived, that in their cellars gas can be find in large quantities. This extraordinary phenomenon has no peer in Hungary. The carbon dioxide dry-bath is recommended for people who are suffered from chronic arterial system illness, for articular disease, for frostbites, neuralgia, chronic skin affections.

Curative horse riding

In our country the curative horse riding is an unknown thing for lots of people.
The horse itself and the riding on the horse have got very good psychological and physiological influences. Curative horse riding has two main benefits. One of these is sport and exercise, and the other one is therapy.
We can develop the most effective kinaesthesia with curative horse-back riding.
Horse therapy is applicable for different physical and intellectual deficiencies regabilitation. ( ataxy, brain lesions, multiple sclerosis, hemiplegia). Curative horse riding is offered to those people who can not able to do some movements, for example: to creep, to walk on all fours, to squat and to stand up from squating. Those people who suffer from paralysis belong to this group. Doctors and medical instructors take part in the work.

Medical treatment of the respiratory illnesses

In Heves County you will find beautiful forests.
You can find the highest peak of the country in the Mátra Mountain : Kékesteto (1015 m). The clear and ozone rich air of the Mátra offers excellent recovering possibility for Respiratory Illnesses.
Because of the good possibilities you will find here lots of pensions, hotels, sanitariums, privat rooms with tennis courts, swimming pools and saunas. The Mátra and its surroundings offer excellent places to recover, to relax, to hike, to hunt all year round and to ski in the winter.